Among Joey Tranchina’s thousands of images that captured southern and northern California in the 1960s through 1970s, a distinguished collection of portraits stood out - a cross-generational array of multi-cultural, race and gender diverse artists linked by a Beat aesthetic. Collectively, these men and women represent the inclusive alliance of poets, activists and artists that perpetuated the Beat Movement’s influence internationally.

Tranchina’s Beat archive is an illuminating look at the foundations of an early social movement that championed humanity over economy, ecology over industry, and equal rights for women and men regardless of race, social status, or sexual orientation: a Beat attitude to ideology based on Vision, Spirit, Freedom, Change that continues to influence culture in the 21st Century.